There are too many people nowadays who are not what they portray to be.
It's too easy today to forge a fraudulent identity online where people pretend to be what they're not.
From 'social media's' 'influencers' to to finance and business 'gurus' (e.g. Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame) to so called professionals in academia.
This can all come crashing to an end when some people start doing a 'deep dive' into who you really are.
Let's take a closer look at Lex Fridman, where a Wikipedia post says the following at the time of this writing:
Lex Fridman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born 15 August 1983) is an American computer scientist and podcaster. Since 2018, he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he interviews notable figures from various fields such as science, technology, sports, and politics.
Fridman rose to prominence in 2019 after Elon Musk praised a study Fridman authored at MIT, which concluded that drivers remained focused while using Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system. The study was criticized by AI experts and was not peer-reviewed.[4][5] That year Fridman transitioned to an unpaid role at MIT AgeLab,[4] and since 2023 has worked as a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).[6]
Early life and education
Alexey Alexandrovich Fridman was born in Chkalovsk, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic and grew up in Moscow.[7][4] He is Jewish.[8] His father, Alexander Fridman, is a plasma physicist and professor at Drexel University. His brother Gregory was also a professor at Drexel.[4]
When he was about 11, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Fridman's family moved from Russia to the Chicago area.[4][9] He attended Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois.[10] He then went on to obtain B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science at Drexel University in 2010,[11] and completed his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel in 2014.[12] His PhD dissertation, Learning of Identity from Behavioral Biometrics for Active Authentication, was completed under the advisement of engineering educators Moshe Kam and Steven Weber and sought to "investigate the problem of active authentication on desktop computers and mobile devices".[13]
Career
MIT
In 2014, Fridman was hired by Google to continue his dissertation work on the use of AI for identity authentication, but left the company after only six months stating that he prefers the "chaos of research and the academic environment".[12] In 2015, he moved to MIT's AgeLab to work on "psychology and big-data analytics to understand driver behavior."[4]
In 2019, Fridman published a non-peer-reviewed study about Tesla Autopilot finding that drivers using semi-autonomous vehicles stayed focused, contrasting with established research on how humans interact with automated systems. Following his Tesla Autopilot study, Fridman was flown to Tesla offices for an interview with Elon Musk. Fridman's study on Tesla Autopilot was criticized for its methodology by Missy Cummings, a professor at Duke University and advisor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who described it as "deeply flawed". AI researcher Anima Anandkumar suggested Fridman should submit his study for peer review before seeking press coverage.[4][5] Following the interview with Musk, viewings of his podcast episodes increased significantly. The study was later removed from MIT's website.[4]
Following the publication of the study, he left AgeLab and took up an unpaid role in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[4] As of 2023, he is a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).[6][14]
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But is is true what the wikipedia article states?
Some people even threathen to sue Wikipedia, if the truth is 'unflattering' to them, or maybe if it just hurts their feelings.
Telstra's CEO Solomon Trujillo, threatened to sue Wikipedia, where someone public the truth redarding his business dealings in the United States before he 'fled' to Australia to become head of a Telecom's giant.
See article: https://solomontrujillo.blogspot.com/ which is different from today's Wikipedia page on "Sol Trujillo", where there is no 'Controversies' section, how convenient.
Let's see what a couple of people have to say about Mr. Fridman.
Is Lex Fridman a FRAUD?: (12m19s)
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